feat(devcontainer): bake velero CLI into the toolbox, pinned to prod server v1.18.2

The velero CLI and server are version-coupled, so VELERO_VERSION follows the
server running on prod (docker.io/velero/velero:v1.18.2, chart 12.2.3,
verified 2026-11-07). It has no renovate marker on purpose: bump it together
with the chart's appVersion. The verify stage asserts that
`velero version --client-only` reports the pin. The build arg reaches CI
through build-image.sh --print-build-args, so no .gitea/ or ci/ change is
needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

.gitea/workflows/gate.yml

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0        # full history so ci/touched-requirements.sh can diff vs main
 

.gitea/workflows/images.yaml

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 75
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0   # the per-image change detection diffs against the base commit
 

.gitea/workflows/merge-gate.yaml

@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ jobs:
   spec-immutability:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262                 # v4                 # the implementation repo
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1                 # v7                 # the implementation repo
       - name: Check out the read-only spec (sibling path)
-        uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with:
           repository: ${{ vars.SPEC_REPO_SLUG }}  # e.g. Home-Network/home-network-k3s (set in Gitea)
           path: ../home-network-k3s
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [spec-immutability]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0 }          # full history so touched-requirement diff works
       - name: Install pinned tools
         run: ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh lint
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [lint]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
       - name: Install pinned tools
         run: ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh l0
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [l0]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
       - name: Install pinned tools
         run: ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh l1
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [render-golden]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
       - name: Install pinned tools
         run: ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh l1
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
         run: make -C ci l1
       - name: Upload L1 artifacts
         if: always()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@cf430e030ddbb5b0abf93d22962f4752f3646cd9 # v7
         with:
           name: l1-junit-coverage
           path: |
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [l1]
     if: ${{ vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE == 'true' }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
       - name: Install pinned tools
         run: ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh conformance
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
         run: make -C ci conformance
       - name: Upload L2/L3 artifacts
         if: always()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@cf430e030ddbb5b0abf93d22962f4752f3646cd9 # v7
         with:
           name: conformance-junit-coverage
           path: |
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [lint, l0, render-golden, l1, conformance]
     if: always()
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
       - name: Decide
         env:
           R_LINT: ${{ needs.lint.result }}

decisions/2026-11-07-devcontainer-velero-cli.md

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+---
+date: 2026-11-07
+branch: feat/devcontainer-velero-cli
+title: Bake the velero CLI into the dev toolbox, pinned to the prod server version
+---
+
+## What changed
+
+- `infra/devcontainer/versions.env`: new `VELERO_VERSION=1.18.2`, with a comment explaining that
+  the CLI and server are version-coupled, so this pin follows the server and is not bumped on
+  its own. It has **no** `# renovate:` marker on purpose. When a `velero` chart bump in
+  `platform/velero/helmrelease.yaml` changes the appVersion, bump this pin in the same PR.
+- `infra/devcontainer/Containerfile`: `ARG VELERO_VERSION`; the binary comes from the
+  vmware-tanzu GitHub release tarball and is installed in the same RUN as flux/helm. There is
+  no checksum check, which matches the other tools in that file (none of them verify one).
+  `velero=` is recorded in `/etc/dev-toolchain-versions`. The verify stage now checks that
+  `velero` is on PATH, and `check velero v${VELERO_VERSION}` asserts the output of
+  `velero version --client-only`.
+- `infra/devcontainer/build-image.sh`: `VELERO_VERSION` added to `BUILD_ARGS`. CI reads that
+  list generically through `--print-build-args` (`.gitea/workflows/scripts/images.sh`), so
+  **no sensitive path (`.gitea/**`, `ci/**`) was touched**.
+- `infra/devcontainer/README.md`: added a Backups row to the tool table.
+- `runbooks/backup-failure.md`: under "First commands", a read-only
+  `velero backup describe --details` / `backup logs` example run through dev.sh.
+
+## What I verified
+
+- Live server version, read-only: `kubectl --context k3s-prod -n velero get deploy velero`
+  shows image `docker.io/velero/velero:v1.18.2`, and HelmRelease `velero` has
+  lastAttemptedRevision `12.2.3`.
+- Local build: `IMAGE=localhost/home-k3s-dev:velero-wt ./build-image.sh` returned rc 0. The
+  verify stage printed `ok velero` (on PATH), `ok velero v1.18.2` (pin check) and
+  `TOOLBOX VERIFIED`. The image was built under a separate local tag and **not pushed**.
+- Smoke test with that image against prod (read-only): `velero version` reports Client v1.18.2
+  and Server v1.18.2. `velero backup get` lists the daily backups, all `Completed` with 0 errors.
+- Recurring warning (reported only, not fixed): every daily backup since
+  `velero-daily-20261031030050` has 1 warning. Backups up to 20261030 have 0. The warning text is:
+  `gitea-actions: resource: /pods name: /act-runner-5944dfdfb8-69bvq message: /Skip pod volume
+  data error: /pod is not in the expected status, ... phase=Failed: pod is not running`.
+  It is the same pod in 20261031, 20261104 and 20261108. `gitea-actions` holds 11 `Failed`
+  pods with reason `Evicted` from ReplicaSet `act-runner-5944dfdfb8`, ten of them started
+  2026-10-30T08:26Z. The running runner is `act-runner-fc597f6b5-vsvkl`. So the warning comes from a
+  leftover evicted (`Failed`) pod that Velero still tries to back up volumes for. Cleaning up the evicted pods is an
+  operator action.
+- Gate: see the PR description for the toolbox `ci/gate.sh` rc and the skipped stages.
+
+## What I did NOT verify
+
+- The CI image build (`.gitea/workflows/images.yaml`) on this branch. It runs on push/PR and I
+  have not seen its result while writing this.
+- An arm64 build. Only amd64 was built (`TARGETARCH` defaults to amd64).
+- Any mutating velero command (`backup create`, `restore`, `delete`). None were run.
+- Why only `-69bvq` of the 11 evicted act-runner pods shows up in the warning. A likely guess is
+  that only that pod's volumes match the backup's pod-volume selection, but I did not check.

infra/devcontainer/Containerfile

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ ARG CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION
 # Pinned to the Prometheus version prod actually runs — see versions.env for why that lockstep is
 # the point, and for the live-cluster command that establishes it.
 ARG PROMTOOL_VERSION
+# velero: operator CLI for the backup server. Pinned to the server version prod runs — the CLI
+# and server are version-coupled; see versions.env.
+ARG VELERO_VERSION
 ARG TARGETARCH=amd64
 
 # Distro packages: libvirt client libs (harmless disk-image utilities), ansible, ssh,
@@ -66,6 +69,10 @@ RUN set -eux; \
     curl -fsSL "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${KUBECTL_VERSION}/bin/linux/${TARGETARCH}/kubectl" -o /usr/local/bin/kubectl; chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl; \
     curl -fsSL "https://get.helm.sh/helm-v${HELM_VERSION}-linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz" | tar -xz -C /tmp; \
       install -m0755 "/tmp/linux-${TARGETARCH}/helm" /usr/local/bin/helm; \
+    VELERO_TARBALL="velero-v${VELERO_VERSION}-linux-${TARGETARCH}"; \
+    curl -fsSL "https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/download/v${VELERO_VERSION}/${VELERO_TARBALL}.tar.gz" \
+      | tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin --strip-components=1 "${VELERO_TARBALL}/velero"; \
+      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/velero; \
     rm -rf /tmp/*
 
 # Pinned conformance test toolchain (L0/L1 static gate + the L2/L3 Chainsaw runner).
@@ -93,7 +100,7 @@ RUN { echo "opentofu=${OPENTOFU_VERSION}"; echo "age=${AGE_VERSION}"; echo "sops
       echo "kyverno=${KYVERNO_VERSION}"; echo "kyverno-json=${KYVERNO_JSON_VERSION}"; \
       echo "chainsaw=${CHAINSAW_VERSION}"; echo "yamllint=${YAMLLINT_VERSION}"; \
       echo "yq=${YQ_VERSION}"; echo "check-jsonschema=${CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION}"; \
-      echo "promtool=${PROMTOOL_VERSION}"; \
+      echo "promtool=${PROMTOOL_VERSION}"; echo "velero=${VELERO_VERSION}"; \
     } > /etc/dev-toolchain-versions
 
 WORKDIR /work
@@ -112,6 +119,7 @@ ARG KUBECTL_VERSION
 ARG CHAINSAW_VERSION
 ARG KYVERNO_VERSION
 ARG SOPS_VERSION
+ARG VELERO_VERSION
 RUN --network=none /bin/bash -euo pipefail <<'VERIFY'
 echo "--- no network (the build-time stand-in for run --network none) ---"
 if getent hosts registry.fedoraproject.org >/dev/null 2>&1 || curl -sS --max-time 3 -o /dev/null https://1.1.1.1 2>/dev/null; then
@@ -122,13 +130,13 @@ echo "--- baked versions ---"; cat /etc/dev-toolchain-versions
 echo "--- every tool is on PATH ---"
 for t in tofu age age-keygen sops flux kubectl helm kyverno kyverno-json chainsaw yq \
          yamllint check-jsonschema promtool ansible-playbook git make jq diff python3 \
-         wg qrencode; do
+         wg qrencode velero; do
   if command -v "$t" >/dev/null 2>&1; then printf "    ok      %s\n" "$t";
   else printf "    MISSING %s\n" "$t"; missing=1; fi
 done
 [ -z "${missing:-}" ] || { echo "toolbox is missing tools"; exit 1; }
 echo "--- version-sensitive tools report their pins ---"
-: "${PROMTOOL_VERSION:?}" "${KUBECTL_VERSION:?}" "${CHAINSAW_VERSION:?}" "${KYVERNO_VERSION:?}" "${SOPS_VERSION:?}"
+: "${PROMTOOL_VERSION:?}" "${KUBECTL_VERSION:?}" "${CHAINSAW_VERSION:?}" "${KYVERNO_VERSION:?}" "${SOPS_VERSION:?}" "${VELERO_VERSION:?}"
 check() { # name pin actual-output
   if printf "%s" "$3" | grep -qF "$2"; then printf "    ok      %-10s %s\n" "$1" "$2";
   else printf "    DRIFT   %-10s want %s, got: %s\n" "$1" "$2" "$(printf "%s" "$3" | head -1)"; drift=1; fi
@@ -138,6 +146,7 @@ check kubectl  "${KUBECTL_VERSION}"  "$(kubectl version --client 2>&1)"
 check chainsaw "${CHAINSAW_VERSION}" "$(chainsaw version 2>&1)"
 check kyverno  "${KYVERNO_VERSION}"  "$(kyverno version 2>&1)"
 check sops     "${SOPS_VERSION}"     "$(sops --version --disable-version-check 2>&1 || sops --version 2>&1)"
+check velero   "v${VELERO_VERSION}"  "$(velero version --client-only 2>&1)"
 [ -z "${drift:-}" ] || { echo "a tool does not report its pinned version"; exit 1; }
 echo "--- python can import what the renderer and the gate need ---"
 python3 -c "import yaml; print('    PyYAML', yaml.__version__)"

infra/devcontainer/README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ baseline, and the *same* binaries CI uses.
 | Provisioning | OpenTofu (`bpg/proxmox` provider), `ansible-core`, `openssh-clients` |
 | GitOps / cluster | `flux`, `kubectl`, `helm` |
 | Secrets | `sops`, `age` + `age-keygen` |
+| Backups (`platform/velero`) | `velero` CLI — pinned to the **server** version prod runs (version-coupled; see `versions.env`) |
 | VPN (`platform/vpn-ingress`) | `wg` (wireguard-tools) — mint the server key, derive client public keys; `qrencode` — render a client profile as a phone-scannable QR |
 | **CI gate** | `yamllint`, `check-jsonschema`, `kyverno` CLI, `kyverno-json`, `chainsaw`, `yq`, `diffutils`, `make` |
 | Misc | `qemu-img`, `cloud-utils`/`genisoimage`, `libvirt-client` (disk-image utilities only — leftovers from the libvirt era, harmless) |

infra/devcontainer/build-image.sh

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ BUILD_ARGS=(
   "KYVERNO_JSON_VERSION=$KYVERNO_JSON_VERSION" "CHAINSAW_VERSION=$CHAINSAW_VERSION"
   "YAMLLINT_VERSION=$YAMLLINT_VERSION" "YQ_VERSION=$YQ_VERSION"
   "CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION=$CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION" "PROMTOOL_VERSION=$PROMTOOL_VERSION"
+  "VELERO_VERSION=$VELERO_VERSION"
 )
 if [ "${PRINT_ARGS}" -eq 1 ]; then printf '%s\n' "${BUILD_ARGS[@]}"; exit 0; fi
 

infra/devcontainer/versions.env

@@ -44,4 +44,19 @@ CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION=0.29.4
 # promtool ships INSIDE the prometheus release tarball (prometheus-<v>.linux-<arch>.tar.gz), so
 # the version string here is a Prometheus release, not a separate promtool release.
 PROMTOOL_VERSION=3.14.0
+# velero — the operator CLI for the Velero backup server (platform/velero): `velero backup
+# describe <name> --details`, `velero backup logs`, `velero backup create --from-schedule`.
+#
+# THIS PIN IS NOT FREE-FLOATING: the CLI and server are VERSION-COUPLED (the CLI talks to the
+# server's CRDs and its download-request protocol; upstream supports only a matching minor), so
+# it MUST equal the Velero server version actually running on prod.
+# Verified against the live cluster on 2026-11-07:
+#   kubectl --context k3s-prod -n velero get deploy velero \
+#     -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}'
+#     -> docker.io/velero/velero:v1.18.2   (HelmRelease velero, chart velero-12.2.3)
+# Deliberately carries NO `# renovate:` marker: it must move WITH the server, i.e. when a
+# vmware-tanzu `velero` chart bump (platform/velero/helmrelease.yaml, range >=12 <13) changes the
+# chart's appVersion, bump this in the same PR. Never bump it on its own. The verify stage
+# asserts `velero version --client-only` reports exactly this version.
+VELERO_VERSION=1.18.2
 # Proxmox provider (bpg/proxmox) is pinned in the tofu module (infra/tofu/versions.tf), not here.

runbooks/backup-failure.md

@@ -99,6 +99,16 @@ infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c \
      -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,BACKUP:.metadata.labels.velero\\.io/backup-name,PHASE:.status.phase,BYTES:.status.progress.bytesDone'
 ```
 
+The `velero` CLI is in the toolbox (pinned to the server version) and gives the per-item errors and
+warnings the CR only counts. Read-only; `velero backup create/delete` and `velero restore` are
+operator actions:
+
+```
+infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c \
+  'velero --kubecontext k3s-prod -n velero backup describe <name> --details; \
+   velero --kubecontext k3s-prod -n velero backup logs <name> | grep -iE "level=(error|warn)" | tail -25'
+```
+
 The plugin pin (cause 1 depends entirely on this):
 
 ```